isn't probable. the hearing has been filled with wild accusations from both sides including police found testosterone and needles in pistorius's bedroom and the lead investigator charged with attempted murder and dismissed from the case and today south africa's most senior detective was assigned to the case. the defense said pistorius is not a flight risk and one of the primary reasons he should be released on bond is his prosthetic legs saying they need to be adjusted every month. if pistorius is not granted bail, his defense team says it will immediately appeal. we're still waiting for this decision to come down in oscar pistorius's bail hearing. it's day four. we expect this decision any minute now. jon, laura? >> thank you very much. it's 5:02. happening now, the manhunt is on this morning for people responsible for the death of an

oakland rapper and two other people on the las vegas strip. las vegas police say people inside a black range rover opened fire on rapper kenneth cherry while driving his maserati around 4:30 yesterday morning. the cab driver and passenger were killed in that cab and four others were injured. cherry's father spoke with "today in the bay" and our own bob redell is live in oakland with that part of the story for us. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning to you, laura. his father who lives in oakland tells us that his son, kenny cherry, rapper name kenny clutch, was the sweet of the man he ever met. yesterday kenneth cherry, sr., received the worst kind of news. a phone call from his son's girlfriend that his first born, his 27-year-old boy, had been murdered in las vegas after an argument that started with some people in the parking lot outside of a hotel.

six months ago he appeared in this music video filmed on the vegas strip. he was driving that maserati down the strip when he was shot and killed early yesterday morning. >> i heard there was some kind of disagreement. the guys pulled to the side of him and let the window down. they just started shooting. my son for the record did not have any guns in his car. there was no gun battle. nothing like that. >> reporter: there was at least one person in a black range rover who shot cherry causing his maserati to slam into taxi. that taxi caught fire killing the driver and passenger. a passenger in cherry's car but so far survived. police are on the lookout for the black range rover. he attended several catholic schools including st. mary's in albany. a bright kid when it came to math. his priority right now is to bury his son and help take care

of his three grandchildren including a 2-month-old baby girl. reporting live here in oakland, bob redell, "today in the bay." the woman that tried to shake down wendy's by putting a severed finger in her chili is back in court this morning. arturo santiago has new details of her latest arrest. good morning, arturo. >> reporter: good morning, jon. 47-year-old was just trying to keep her son out of trouble when her story went really heavy on the details just like she did back in 2005 when she lied about the crunchiness of the finger she had beaten into. she's charged with being accessory to a felony and filing a false police report. a detailed descriptions of two nonexistent men who supposedly shot her 26-year-old son in the ankle. she said one of them wore a black oakland a's cap and air jordan shoes and other was a big

man with goatee and large ears. her son shot himself in the ankle but made up the story because he has a burglary conviction on his record and is not supposed to have a gun. their story fell apart under more questioning by detectives and an investigation. so they are scheduled to be arraigned in court at noon today here at the hall of justice. we're live in san jose, i'm arturo santiago, "today in the bay." >> it is 5:06. walnut creek police trying to figure out who stole the personal information of hundreds of mercedes-benz owner. sometime between the night of february 7th and the next morning, someone broke into the dealership and took hundreds of files from a locked area. those files actually contain the names, addresses, social security and credit card numbers of mercedes-benz of walnut creek customers. a rally in support of renaming sfo after harvey milk

will take place today. david compost proposed renaming the airport harvey milk san francisco international airport. a number of people have written letters to the board of supervisors speaking out against that name change but supporters say it would send a global message about the importance and struggle of the gay community. milk was one of the first openly gay people elected in the country. he was shot and killed back in 1978. today's rally is set to start at noon. 5:07 right now. want to take a look at the forecast. >> i definitely want to. it's friday. >> we're looking forward to it. it will be nice, isn't it? >> it is going to be nice. one of the weekends where you can get outdoors and do anything you want outside in the bay area. it will be perfect. temperatures right now are cold. this is a live shot of san jose. we do have clear skies overhead. as a result temperatures have fallen into the 30s. not too bad. we don't have 20s. the only city at freezing is

gilroy. 40 in oakland. 35 in santa rosa. as we head through the noon, look at where temperatures are headed. we'll be at 60 when you break for lunch in san jose so you can make those outdoor lunch plans today and you might just want to do so if you work near the water. it's going to be so crystal clear out there. 63 degrees on the way for fremont. 62 in oakland today. 61 degrees in san francisco. the warmup continues. we got 70s back on your seven day. i'll show you when those come into play. let's check your drive. it's 5:08. no problems on a friday. >> we don't want problems any time but especially on a friday into the weekend. right now we have less to deal with on 880 because the crews are starting to clear now. northbound side crews have cleared. i see flashing lights northbound past the coliseum. no issues. the warriors have the issue. they have to beat the spurs. they'll do that. look at the maps through the area. north and south of the coliseum construction zones continue for the southbound side just minor slowing as you head south of

fru fru fruitvale. chp is just about ready to clear from the incident report. i haven't seen any problems or heard of any further issues. keep it in mind if that is your specific onramp. a smooth drive through the tri-valley west 580 and south 680 marked as morning commute starts coming out of the altamont pass. and road crews south from danville down into dublin but no slowing on sensors so that's an easy drive so far. we'll take you out to san jose to show you a peek at the freeways. 101 not an issue with volume. we'll show the rest coming up. st. mary's college is in a lock to make the ncaa tournament. it's getting close. a big win over byu last night locking them into second place in the wcc. that means they're going to get a bye in the league tournament. if they win that, they will automatically make it to the ncaa tournament. full disclosure, i'm a gale.

>> outside guess you'll be cheering for them. will banners flow even higher? she'll have us all wrapped up in st. mary's gear. 5:09 right now. happy to cheer for them. coming up, we take you to scottsdale for spring training with world champion giants and what it takes to get the field ready for the world champions. the silicon valley company says the boat is not sinking as fast as they thought. that's really good news. we'll take a look coming up in business news. almost tastes like one of jack's cereals.

fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] over a third of a day's fiber. fiber one. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ we, we chocolate cross over. ♪ yeah, we chocolate cross over. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing fiber one 80 calorie chocolate cereal. ♪ chocolate. >> reporter: good morning to you. i'm laurence scott live in scottsdale at spring training home of the world champion san francisco giants. guess what? the games are about to begin. tomorrow. saturday is the cactus league

opener with giants hosting the angels. when you look at all that's gone into spring training, we've had all kinds of weather for certain. raining and cold and sunny days and field crew has to adjust to everything. take a look. >> each day at sunrise in arizona be it a day marked by rain or shine, the giants have to be ready for whatever is thrown their way even ice in the outfield. the field crew at scottsdale stadium is up for the challenge. >> we do a lot of smoke and mirrors trick to try to get by for this 45-day stretch and when the team breaks, you know, it's back to normalcy. >> the giants field operation manager explains what makes this spring training home so unique. >> so many players on one field. we're not set up like a lot of other complexes that have eight

to ten fields at their mercy. we have 2 to 2 1/2 and minor leaguers are about a mile and a half away where it's really tough to rotate foot traffic. you never know when we'll get an irrigation break or coaches will want to do something early and we're stuck. the goal is to be prepared and pull tarps off and just go. >> reporter: the crew gets an extra spring in their step knowing they are working right alongside the world champs. >> absolutely. throughout the organization it's a job to everybody, sure. it's a lot easier to come to the ballpark when you a winners. it shows amongst the crew and atmosphere and especially when fans get here. it takes it to another level. it makes it a lot easier. >> reporter: they really do a great job. the field looks excellent. almost reminds you of the job that greg elliott back at at&t park and his crew do to make

sure the field with giants home games are as perfect as they can be. a great job here. this spring is also something a little bit different than another kind of spring which you had in the past couple years because this year the world baseball classic is taking place and around ten members of the giants organization, players are participating in various games for various home nation's countries. we'll introduce us to some of them and what the world baseball classic means in just a bit. back to you in the studio. >> thank you. it's 5:15. to the other home team. hewlett packard, one of the bay area's oldest companies. scott mcgrew says one without a winning season. >> i'm trying to come up with a baseball team analogy. some baseball team that would be comparable. i don't know baseball enough. a team that had its glory days and now resides somewhere at the bottom of the rankings. hewlett packard reported its profits last night and news was profits were down again. now, weirdly enough wall street

is pleased with hp this morning because the slowdown isn't as much as investors expected. the team is losing. it's just not losing as badly as people figured. let's turn to courtney reagan on this friday for a check at markets at cnbc world headquarters. good morning, courtney. >> good morning, scott. i want to tell viewers that our david faber will interview meg whitman in an hour from now. futures are higher today after stocks fell for a second straight day. however, we did close the day off the lows at the very least so things weren't as bad as could have been expected. however, we had disappointing data for manufacturing in both europe and the u.s. the dow posted its worst two-day drop of the year. broader s&p index set for its first weekly loss in the past eight weeks. no economic data today. earnings from abercrombie & fitch will steer the markets.

dow fell nearly 47 points and will open trade today at 13,880. nasdaq fell to 3131. futures are higher going into the opening bell. >> we'll watch for that whitman interview. looking ahead to next week, apple holds its shareholders meeting and one shareholder in particular wants your attention. david einhorn held a strategy meeting thursday trying to rally other shareholders into pressuring apple to create a special class of stock which would pay out a permanent dividend. apple has $100 billion or more in cash it's not using. companies resist playing regular dividends because it's a sign the company is not cool anymore. it's not a young startup. a mature company with no major growth ahead of it. if you have 100 billion or more sitting around with no idea what to do with it, that is a sign you're not a growth company any way even if you don't give it back. a couple shots at apple trying

to get that money unlocked for good or bad. apple doesn't want to give it up. >> over 100 billion is pretty cool. >> it's amazing. never before in american history have we seen that kind of money sitting around. >> that's amazing. all right. thank you very much, scott. >> 5:17 right now. christina loren is back. with all of the cold temperatures and the rain that we've had this week, it's appropriate that we clap at this weekend's forecast. >> a little bit of everything. >> let's pick it up a little bit. come on. it's friday. you made it. 5:18. now we have a good looking weekend shaping up for your outdoor plans. one day is going to be better for getting a jump-start on your spring cleaning. you are itching to do that. 41 in san francisco. 33 in napa. one day it will be better for the beach. we'll talk about that in just a minute getting to your future cast this morning. 39 to start the day in san jose. 36 in livermore. 39 degrees in concord. let's talk about future cast.

mild conditions at 4:00 p.m. mostly sunny like yesterday. mid level clouds sneaking into the bay area. not much. it is holding up well. good to moderate air quality. a weak disturbance is going to come through here tomorrow morning. clearly you can see that. the clouds coming in. maybe some low clouds and drizzle at the coast for the first part of the day on saturday. we'll get a stray north bay shower to be the case up in sonoma county. heading through the second half of saturday, that system races out of here and will drop temps a touch. we'll hold onto 60s and high pressure builds in quickly for your sunday. we've got warm sunshine on the way. you can hit the beach. i think places in monterey will be the warmest and santa cruz is looking good for sunday. 64 degrees today in gilroy. 63 in san jose. getting into the all important weekend. not too much of a difference between saturday and sunday. we'll have mostly cloudy skies to start the day saturday. sunday warming you up into the

mid 60s. and look at the climb. it is on for next week. up to 69 degrees by midsection of next week. we're transitioning closer to spring and it's going to feel like it around here across the bay area. let's check your drive. good morning, mike. >> good morning. folks in the south bay where we have no real issues as far as traffic flow goes. stopping traffic flow north 2830. overnight crews have had transition blocked over the last few weeks. the reroute is familiar. it is there picking up over the next hour. we're looking at no problems through fremont up in toward union city. hayward southbound side is where we look for some of the first slowing typical for nimitz in the morning. no problems including castro valley y. that's an easy drive. folks heading toward san mateo bridge unimpeded. let's get a look and see that traffic westbound a good steady flow. light right now heading over toward the san mateo side and no major issues across this span. heading down toward the bay bridge toward berkeley, west 80 heading down to the area smooth

flow under university over crossing. good spacing. 18 minutes from carquinez bridge down to the toll plaza. across the bridge into the city, a smooth flow as well. no problems on the span. golden gate north end we have crews that are clearing from that side. light volume of traffic throughout the north bay and approaching the city. easy flow here. no problems except for off-ramp at 3rd closed off 101. also we have that surface street issue east at bay shore road off 101 heading north of palo alto. that's in redwood city. we have chopper heading over there. deadly crash on surface streets that we'll talk about. back to you. >> thank you very much. it's 5:21. the coast guard is trying to figure out what caused a crane to topple over while working on the new eastern span of the bay bridge. the crane was lifting a piece of scaffolding yesterday afternoon when the scaffolding slipped causing it and the crane to fall. there were four people working on the crane at the time. none of them were hurt luckily. the opening of the bay bridge is still scheduled for labor day

weekend. it's 5:21. coming up, get ready love birds. the household chore that is causing a big-time rift in relationships all over the country.

here we go at 5:24. couples listen up. if your relationship feels a little spotty, you might want to blame your dishwasher. a survey found that more than 40% of americans fight about loading the dishwasher. >> can't we all just get along? >> i guess not. 61% argue whether dishes should be prerinsed or not. folks say that you should not prerinse because the detergent needs to cling to food to avoid scratching your dishes. >> you shouldn't? >> what do you do? >> i'm a freak about it.

i always prerinse. >> i scrub it. it's cleaner than it needs to be. >> we never had a fight about it. feeling good about that. >> so much love. >> major accomplishment. we go to love doc. 5:24 right now. whatever that means. it's still early. christina loren, what's happening weatherwise? >> it sounded good. >> i don't prerinse. i don't have a problem with it either. no one has time for that. a good looking day shaping up this morning, however. we'll hit 65 degrees inland. 63 bayside and 62 at the coast. i don't have kids. things would be different if i did. >> i do have kids and things are different. we prerinse and it doesn't matter because kids get everything dirty any way. looking to dumbarton bridge where we are flowing very nicely across the water. this is highway 84. there's a crew there. we'll mark it on the maps eastbound getting away from the peninsula heading over toward newark side. no problems for 101 through palo alto as we showed you a few minutes ago.

looking off 101 north of redwood city where east bay shore boulevard is closed by the deadly accident we told you about. a car hit a fire hydrant there. visible from 101. our chopper is headed over to check things out. oakland on the other side of the bay. smooth drive for nimitz. picking up volume on a friday. it tends to get slow. back to you. it's 5:26 right now. parents out there keep in mind when you tell your child something, often times they listen, sometimes they don't. when they do listen, they are serious about it. a 10-year-old boy who got a visit from police. he was so upset about being sent to bed, he called 911. his mom was, like, hey, don't go to bed, call the police then. he called 911 and hung up before talking to anybody. police decided to stop by to be safe to check things out. his mom decided to turn the incidents into a learning experience. >> he wases go to leave without talking to my son. i said to him, can you please

speak to my son about the importance of this a learning lesson instead of it being the police came out and that was it. i said make this a learning experience for him and he went and spoke with him. >> we don't recommend doing that. abusing 911 system can be a criminal offense. we're happy to report no charges were filed in this case but we did hear that the young man jumped right into bed real quickly when the police showed up. >> i would imagine if you get a ticket for not listening to your mom or at least a time-out. >> bedtime. 5:27. still to come on "today in the bay," we're following breaking news out of south africa. we are waiting to hear if oscar pistorius will be released on bail. a live look from outside the courtroom. marla tellez listening to what's going on inside. she'll have a live report next. [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents are awesome.

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new this morning, we're waiting for the decision to come down in the oscar pistorius bail hearing. good morning. i'm marla tellez. i'll tell you what's happening in that south african courtroom.

>> kenny was popular and loved a lot by a lot of people. >> and the father of an oakland rapper killed on the las vegas strip opens up about his son's violent death. and you made it to the weekend. we've got a great looking weekend shaping up across the bay area. it's cold to start. temperatures will be warmer today. your full forecast in just a few moments. and while traffic starting to pick up slowly for 101, we do have a deadly crash that might affect folks driving through redwood city this morning. right now we'll take it live outside. a live shot from our san bruno mountain camera. that's sfo. san francisco international airport off in the distance. maybe some people getting out for the weekend. fly out of town on this friday, february 22nd. this is "today in the bay." it is 5:30. good morning, everybody. thank you for joining us. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. we start with breaking news. we're expecting a decision at any moment in the oscar

pistorius bail hearing. "today in the bay's" marla tellez monitoring all of the details from south africa. what are you hearing so far? >> right now we're not hearing that decision for the last 50 minutes the magistrate has been going over the case verbally before the court. he's talking about the history of bail in the country of south africa right now. he's being very detailed. he's talked about the pros and cons of televising the oscar pistorius trial and gone over pistorius' account of the night before he shot and killed reeva steenkamp, his model girlfriend. the morning of her shooting death eight days ago on valentine's day. he stands by the story he accidentally shot her thinking she was a burglar. we hear from nbc news correspondents inside that courtroom via twitter. we're getting a sense of how pistorius is holding up. he's said to be sobbing silently. his eyes shut most of the time. his family is inside the courtroom as they have been the past few days.

a couple of steenkamp's relatives are there and pistorius' coach of nine years says he plans to get back to training pistorius immediately. >> i'm not the legal side of this. i'm ready. we can start training on monday if he's out on bail. >> he said he's going to start training on monday if he's out on bail. now according to the official twitter account of oscar pistorius, his first race of 2013 scheduled for early march. pistorius tweeting about it on february 11th, three days before the night that changed his life. he wrote "can't wait to burn it up." even if he does get out on bail, the question is will he want to run? his emotional state of mind is not very good to say the least. we're waiting for the decision to come down in that south african courtroom any minute now. when it does, we'll bring that to you right away. >> thank you very much, marla. happening right now, the manhunt is on this morning for the people responsible for the death of an oakland rapper and two

other people on the las vegas strip. quite the scene out there. las vegas police say people inside a black range rover opened fire on rapper kenneth cherry, aka rapper kenny clutch, while driving his maserati at 4:30 yesterday morning. he slammed into a cab. that caused the cab to explode. that cab driver and a passenger in the cab were also killed. four others were hurt in the crash that totally shut down part of las vegas boulevard. cherry's father spoke with "today in the bay" and bob redell is live in oakland right now with that part of the story. what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning to you, jon. kenneth cherry, sr., who lives here in oakland tells us that yesterday morning he received a horrifying phone call on the other end of that line his son's girlfriend calling to let him know that his first born rapper kenny clutch had been murdered on the vegas strip. >> when i talk about my son, that was the sweetest young man i ever met in my life.

>> reporter: a heartbroken father now having to bury his 27-year-old son and help look after his three grandchildren including a 2-month-old baby girl. cherry, sr., tell us his son was a bright kid especially when it came to math. his son attended several catholic schools in the east bay including st. mary's in albany. he attended chico state but decided to move to vegas to pursue his rapping career. he shows off his maserati an raps about women and guns. turns out the rapper was driving down the strip in that maserati yesterday morning when someone in black range rover shot and killed him injuring his passenger. the maserati then slammed into a taxi cab causing it to explode into flames killing its driver and passenger. police in nevada and neighboring states are still looking for that black range rover. incidentally, this incident

happened about a block away from another rapper where another rapper was shot and killed many years ago. reporting live here in oakland, bob redell, "today in the bay." it is 5:34 right now. dozens of city college students of san francisco are camped out right now this morning trying to get the chancellor's attention. live pictures right now where they are holding that sit in on the main campus. they want the chancellor to meet with them to talk about school plans to avoid closure. the college is fighting to keep accreditation after the school was found to have an excessive number of campuses and high n nonstructural cost. they say the school is being strong armed into making cuts. >> we want our accreditation but we don't want to be threatened to do it by a for-profit organization. we are a public school. not a private school. >> for the record, if the

college fails to show adequate improvement, it could end up being forced to close down in june. >> all right. don't want to close the window. open them this weekend. it will be a nice one. let's check in with meteorologist christina loren. >> save money and give your heater a break. good morning to you, laura and jon. good morning to you at home. a good looking day shaping up. have to get through the cold morning. no fog to report at this point. if we see any develop, we'll let you know. mostly clear to start the day. 40 in oakland. 41 in san francisco. into your lunch hour, great day for outdoor lunch plans. napa at 62 degrees as you break for lunch. 60 in san jose. 60 in antioch. at noon today temperatures already climbing toward average for this time of year. we'll end up a little bit above average. highs coming in about 3:30. 63 for livermore. 64 for concord. coming up, i'll show you the seven day you seven-day outlook and look at scottsdale for tomorrow. giants back at it taking on angels. that forecast is coming up.

first, let's check your drive. good morning, mike. >> for the most part freeways typical friday morning. i want to call your attention to 101. this is palo alto just south of the dumbarton bridge. you see palo alto and menlo park. this is just off seaport boulevard off-ramp. east bay shore boulevard. most folks not heard of it because it's off of the freeway and you don't need to go there unless you use those businesses. chopper is overhead. they have a scene of that deadly crash. sounds like overnight early about 2:15, 2:30 a car crashed into a fire hydrant there just off the off-ramp. you see that just on the other side of the bushes and so flashing lights are visible as more crews do arrive on scene if they have to come there it may be a distraction off 101 at the scene currently closed but seaport boulevard itself is open and you can take it over toward that shopping area and the other businesses just off 101. that's the east side of 101. look at the east bay looking at oakland where traffic volume

picks up on this side of the bay. starting to sort itself out. plenty of folks north and southbound. southbound construction zone clearing south of 980 but no slowing shows up yet. bay bridge toll plaza, a nice easy drive off the berkeley curve. more company now. we should see meteringing lig ln in half an hour. time is 5:38. christina loren was talking about the world champion giants. with that we'll take you back out to spring training where players have extra on their plates this time around. overnight development. the boeing dreamliner back up in the air.

welcome back. the san jose woman who claims she found a severed finger in her fast food chili is back in front of a judge this morning accused of another lie involving

another body part. arturo santiago has the latest details of her arrest and what happens later today. >> reporter: 47-year-old anna ayala and her son are scheduled to be arraigned here at the hall of justice. back in 2005, ayala lied about the finger in the chili and did so with vivid descriptions talking about crunchiness of the finger. this time her son shot himself in the ankle but told police two men shot him for no reason. reyes has a burglary conviction and is not allowed to have a gun. his mom backed up his story and described two men. those two men in vivid detail. she said that one was wearing a black oakland a's cap and air jordan issues. the other was a big man with goatee and large ears. after an investigation and more questioning by detectives, their story fell apart and they were arrested and are now in custody.

ana ayala is charged with being accessory to a felony and also filing a false police report. she's facing a possible four years in jail. live in san jose, i'm arturo santiago, "today in the bay." an important meeting this morning that could put boeing 787 dreamliner back up in the air. "today in the bay's" tracie potts is live on capitol hill now with the latest on this one. tracie, good morning. >> good morning, jon. 50 planes of boeing have been grounded over a month now. boeing telling faa we think we have a fix. the problem was the ion battery that caught on fire here in the u.s. now they have a ten-point plan to present to the government. we're told they want to encase it, the battery, in a fire resistant box and move it away from other parts of the plane and improve ventilation to try to prevent this from happening again. boeing has a reason for wanting to get those planes back in the air. it's costing them $200 million a

month while they are grounded not to mention governments and airlines that have had to scale back and change their flights as well. we probably won't find out today whether or not that plan is approved. we're not expecting any final decisions today but they plan to meet with faa here in washington. jon? >> thank you very much, tracie potts. tomorrow the world champion giants take to the field for the first cactus league game. >> it's a preseason but we still want to see them play. a week from right now, a few giants players will take on the world literally. "today in the bay's" laurence scott joining us live from scottsdale stadium in arizona for a look at the team's first spring training game and preparation for the baseball classic. good morning. >> reporter: thank you so much. this is a real honor for a lot of these giants players to represent their countries. you have representatives from all types of countries. venezuela, puerto rico, mexico,

the united states. in one case with a minor leaguer, italy. this is such a unique opportunity to not only break away from spring training and also represent your country, but also be on a different kind of world stage that ends up coming to san francisco. we'll explain that in a second. first, look at just how important this world baseball classic is to some of these giants players. spring training in scottsdale goes beyond the cactus league games as opening rounds of the world baseball classic begin just over a week from now. the semifinals and finals will be held at at&t park in the middle of march. ten players total in the giants organization representsing their various home nations teams. >> it would be nice to win the thing since the u.s. hasn't won it yet. it would be very cool to be a part of the first u.s. team to win the tournament. i'm excited about it. >> reporter: the giants outfielder is taking part with the puerto rican national team.

>> i'm getting ready to represent my country and the giants organization and i just want to be the best i can be out there but we're losing focus on what we are trying to accomplish here as a team to go there and win another championship. >> reporter: keep be a eye out for the new batting helmets. safety and the good fight consideration. no longer hard plastic. these helmet shells are made out of an aerospace grade carbon fiber composite. >> they are pretty hard. they feel they will protect much more. they are more compact and hopefully it's a good answer for us to be safe. >> reporter: it is a very busy spring with a lot going on. i will tell you another thing. when we talk about world baseball classic coming to san francisco mid march, at&t park hosting the semifinals and the finals. you heard ryan vogelsong it would be need to see them representing our home nation in san francisco with team usa when the world baseball classic comes to at&t park. that's the scene right now from

scottsdale. let's send it back to you in the studio. >> looks good. nice sunrise behind him too. >> onslaught of baseball in scottsdale, arizona. christina loren is back giving us a forecast for spring training. >> since we can't be there together, let's fly you all there. temperatures are going to be comfortable but just about as nice. right to the giants versus angels forecast in scottsdale, arizona, tomorrow. 65 degrees at 12:05. warm conditions for them. so that's great news. they are back at it. i'm so excited. this is my first baseball forecast of the season. and of course they will fly out to take on the cubs tomorrow so the day after it will be active for them and of course we are your giants station and we'll show you every single piece of coverage from that game that we're allowed to. 40 degrees in oakland. 41 in san francisco to start the day. crisp out there. kind of cool. not too bad. we're headed toward a mild afternoon. the moral of that story is dress in layers for today.

sweater weather by noon. you can peel off that sweater at about 3:00 p.m. when highs come in. it will be comfortable. 65 degrees on the way inland. cold conditions arrive on saturday morning. weak disturbance tries to come through. it will bring in more cloud cover you can see on future cast. as we head through sunday, high pressure a big strong ridge starts to build in. this is going to drive winds offshore. offshore flow in the bay area means beach weather. santa cruz on sunday will be perfect out there around 67 degrees. you can't beat that. you know what? we're at the end of february. it's a short month. we did pick up enough rainfall over the past week to make up totals for the entire month which is impressive. not doing bad in terms of average rainfall. getting into your weekend, here are those numbers. 64 on sunday. that's inland. 64 bayside. 61 degrees at the coast. further south you head, the warmer it gets. santa cruz tomorrow will be

comfortable even more so as we head through sunday. that's your day to hit the beach. getting into next week when we meet back here, temperatures are going to stay steady in mid 60s and we'll start the climb wednesday into thursday after another disturbance tries to come through here. it will bring in more clouds for wednesday. overall once it clears, thursday, friday, saturday, looking toward another beautiful springlike weekend. 5:48. let's see how well we're doing on a friday. is it light out there, mike? >> freeways are light. a deadly crash that we're tracking. surface street in redwood city. now they are heading south into san jose. not yet on scene. you see freeway traffic moves smoothly. let me show you maps. the freeways throughout the area only northbound 101 just north of 680 shows a little bit of slowing. that's typical even on a friday just before 6:00. that first burst kicks in. over here capital expressway at tully road. a major intersection. word that vta motor coach involved in a crash with another vehicle. 15 to 20 passengers were onboard

as well. getting details on injuries to passenger and impact to vta line. official word from them and spokesperson coming up hopefully very soon. do expect some delays if your line travels through that intersection. we'll also get you a look out to the commute. i talked about the freeways and main commute starting to slow down for livermore as you come out of the altamont pass we have speeds dipping down into 50s and closer to 40s at times as you get close to that dublin interchange. looks like good volume of traffic. pleasanton and sunol moving smoothly right now. we'll catch folks in oakland. 880 past the coliseum has seen a good volume as well. this is friday. we've had a light week. this is pretty standard but in comparison to first four days this week, it's heavier than sometimes about 6:00. looking to bay bridge toll plaza, a backup in cash lanes. look at that. already starting to back up. no metering lights. out of emeryville, a steady flow. back to you with headlights. >> 5:49. a warning to women this morning

after two separate attacks on a popular trail near the south san francisco b.a.r.t. station. the attacks happened just hours apart on the centennial way trail wednesday night. in both cases the women were walking alone when they were approached by a man asking their name. when they refused to give it, the suspect then chased the women for a short distance. in one attack the man grabbed the victim but she managed to fight him off. police say it is possible the same man is responsible for both attacks but they say the women's description of the man differed. a gun buyback event. sponsored by two bay area fathers. protect our children has raised more than $30,000 for tomorrow's event which will trade cash for firearms. no questions asked. the organization's founder roger lee and coordinator james cook have children in palo alto schools and they say they were deeply affected by the mass shooting in newtown,

connecticut. police officers from menlo park, palo alto and east palo alto will collect those guns at city hall and east palo alto from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. 5:50 right now. why it may soon cost you more to get into a giants game. >> it will cost you 20 bucks for our gadget friday. what is it? we'll take a look coming up. almost tastes like one of jack's cereals.

fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one!

yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] over a third of a day's fiber. fiber one. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ we, we chocolate cross over. ♪ yeah, we chocolate cross over. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing fiber one 80 calorie chocolate cereal. ♪ chocolate. welcome back, everyone. a live look outside waiting for the sun's arrival. dark at the golden gate bridge. not a lot of traffic to report. friday light. 5:53. still early. first it was parking meters and now ferry tickets. giants fans headed to at&t park may have to pay more just to get in. new proposal would charge fans who take the ferry to games $11

one way. that's up a dollar from last year's one-way fathre. there will be a public hearing on march 7th. you could just ride your bike. scott mcgrew has a bike gadget for gadget friday. what's up, my man? >> this gadget is the a device that fits on the back of your bike. it holds a piece of chalk. i think you can immediately figure out what happens there. you can draw all over the sidewalk for miles and miles and miles. it's $20 from a website called think geek. think geek is one of my favorite websites. now, we found a couple of things with this. we did find it's better to add weight to the tail end of it. it tends to bounce. you can't just stick any chalk in there. you have to buy a specific replacement chalk because of the way that the holder is shaped. it's not expensive to replace. and kids had a tremendous amount of fun as we tested this out. i will be honest, jon and laura. they had equally as much fun

chalking with chalk. nothing like sidewalk chalk. one of the purest childhood joyce. >> wh . >> what i like is mom knows where you went. time for dinner. >> that piece of chalk looks like a fred flintstone size. >> it got a lot of use. it comes with five or six sticks and you can buy replacements. >> cool stuff. >> think geek. >> think geek. >> check it out. let's check back in with christina loren to check out our weather. she's thinking sunshine. >> i think i know what to get triplets for easter coming up. good morning to you. a good looking day shaping up. mid 60s inland. 63 degrees on the way bayside and at the coast right around 62 degrees. a touch warmer than yesterday. wield hold onto the crystal clear blue sky. a great looking day across the

bay area. let's check on your drive. mike has traffic alerts. >> we just lost our chopper signal. they were over the scene. i saw the crash capital expressway at tully road. crews on scene and vta bus on the shoulder. we may have live pictures coming in or not. we don't have any impact to the vta. we know that the scene is clearing and one person was taken to the hospital. we're checking on that. brandy from vta will call us back if they have more information on that. the scene is about to clear. hopefully very quickly. traffic is flowing through the area. vta may have delays. the rest of the south bay is moving clearly. we'll show you that update on 101 coming up later. >> thank you very much. still ahead, the bay area ties to the oscar. we'll tell you who could celebrate oscar gold come monday. plus, we continue to follow breaking news from south africa. the bail hearing for oscar pistorius has wrapped up. we'll let you know what's next for the man known as the blade runner.

and taking a live look outside this morning where we continue to monitor that everything is going on. we're all on stand by here. plus, the greatest of the day's news. 5:56 right now.

the crucial court decision just being delivered today. the san jose chili finger woman back in court today. it's not a finger this time but another body part that landed her in jail. >> when i talk about my son, that was the sweetest young man i ever met in my life. a search continues for an inspiring rapper's killer.

we'll let you know what we just learned for the suv in question. coldest part of the day. you need your jacket but something to peel off later. a warmup on the way today and your weekend forecast is just moments. folks wearing their jackets outside this accident investigation. a crash, car ran a red light, hits a bus. we'll tell you what's going on in san jose coming up. a beautiful live look outside. sun coming up over the bay area. looking forward to that really nice weekend on tap. it's friday, february 22nd. this is "today in the bay." good friday morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm jon kelley. good morning, everybody. breaking news in south africa where we are still waiting for a decision on the oscar pistorius bail hearing. that magistrate has been methodical in this case talking for more than an hour about everything but that verdict.

"today in the bay's" marla tellez is listening very closely for that verdict. she's live in the newsroom right now with the details. what's the latest? >> what's key is most recently the magistrate said he does not feel the prosecution has met the threshold for charging pistorius with premeditated murder essentially saying the state's case is weak and in doing so, he listed a few examples. he mentioned the debacle with the lead investigator who was removed from the case just yesterday. he's facing attempted murder charges in his own right for something that happened in 2011. he also mentioned the blunder with the testosterone that the lead investigator said was found in pistorius' bedroom has not been determined that's testosterone. he says as far as he's concerned, the prosecution presented circumstantial evidence and that's not enough for premeditated murder charge. he's gone through the grounds of bail. will pistorius